America’s confidence in TV news has hit a new low, but should anyone be surprised? According to Gallup’s analysis of their annual Confidence in Institutions survey, only 21 percent of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in TV news. Newspapers don’t fare much better with only 25 percent of respondents expressing confidence. Gallup’s survey, which was conducted from June 7-10, was released last month and was predictably ignored by pretty much everyone except Newsbusters’ own Tim Graham who reported on its findings here. Confidence in TV news has seen a seven point drop since last year alone (down from a still-embarrassing 28 percent in 2011). And this survey was conducted before two major cable news networks botched their initial reports on the outcome of the Supreme Court’s ObamaCare decision on June 28.

So what could possibly account for this drop? The answer is simple: the networks refuse to Tell the Truth, and the American people are sick and tired of it. Even liberals (19 percent) and moderates (20 percent) have lost faith in TV news, although, not surprisingly, self-identified Democrats have the highest confidence at 34 percent compared to 17 percent for Republicans and 17 percent for Independents. This shouldn’t come as any shock given the media’s torrid love affair with Democrat superhero Barack Obama.

Obama’s Approval Hits All-Time Low Among Poor, Says Gallup A week that began with President Barack Obama going on national television to pitch his vision for a debt-limit deal in terms that pitted “millionaires and billionaires” against “everyone else,” ended with the president receiving his lowest-ever weekly approval ratings in the Gallup poll from the poorest Americans (those earning less than $2,000 per month) and from one segment of...

Rasmussen: Tea Party Vote Could Kill GOP Tea party candidates could undermine Republicans in congressional races so severely that Democrats could win many of those contests, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national survey. In a three-way congressional contest with a tea party candidate on the ballot, the Democrat could pick up 40 percent of the vote. The Republican would get 21 percent support, while 18 percent...

40% of Americans self-identify as Independents, highest in US history The percentage of Americans identifying as political independents increased in 2011, as is common in a non-election year, although the 40% who did so is the highest Gallup has measured, by one percentage point. More Americans continue to identify as Democrats than as Republicans, 31% to 27%. These results are based on more than 20,000 interviews conducted in 20 separate...

Gallup: Real 99 Percenters Twice as Likely to be Conservative as Liberal (CNSNews.com) – An analysis of more than 65,000 Americans polled by Gallup during the Obama presidency indicates that among the 99 percent of American adults who do not rank in the top one percent for income, conservatives outnumber liberals by approximately 2-to-1. According to Gallup’s data, Americans in the 99 percent are slightly more likely to say they are conservative...

Gallup: Virtually no support for third party candidacy in 2012 Gallup's Poll found a consistent 1% volunteering the name of some other candidate as their choice for president. The 1% is in line with the vote for third-party candidates in recent presidential elections when no high-profile third-party candidate ran....

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m123s

Many Americans, and our enemy, know that the Media was to be the Fourth Branch, and was neccessary to maintain our Republic Form of Govt..Informed citizen are required; Flip the coin-Uninformed citizens are required to over-throw the Republic, without firing one shot. The enemy owns the “information givers”, which has become entertainment for those who would rather believe a lie Vs. the Truth. The Alinsky principles are being applied through the Media.

crescentfang

The mass media was always a problem. It led to leaders like Hitler with the skills to manipulate people’s opinions by controlling information. The internet is fixing that to some extent but, to judge by the importance of money for attack adds, the broadcast media is still too influential for safety.